Embossed Floral Encouragement Cards - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! Today I've got a simple trio of encouragement cards featuring a beautiful embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp, as well as one of my favorite sentiment sets! Do you recognize those colors as well? Yep...I also used up some leftovers from THESE cards that I posted a couple days ago! I mean, when you have pretty leftovers sitting nearby, what's a girl to do?!?

I had 3 panels leftover that had been cut from some of Lawn Fawn Schoolyard cardstock pack with a Nested Stitched Rectangle die. I had been wanting to use the pretty Peony Trio embossing folder, so I centered each panel in the embossing folder and ran it through. The good part about doing this, is if you die cut AFTER embossing, you flatten out the embossed image. So this way I had the pretty stitched edge already on there, and also a nice deep embossed impression. I popped those up with foam adhesive on a white cardbase, added sentiments from Inside Greetings 1, and then wrapped around coordinating Prima Yarn to tie in a bow. I thought about gems, but these were just too perfect as they were to mess with them! Here is a closer look at each one:

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Summer Days - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! Who else is having some hot weather in their neck of the woods? Summer has hit with full force here in the Pacific Northwest, and it definitely feels like summer. Yesterday I pulled out some supplies from Simon Says Stamp, and was clearly inspired by that feeling for the card I have to share today! 

As soon as I saw the Bring on the Sun set, I knew this swimsuit looked like the perfect image for some paper piecing with pattern paper! I grabbed some Simple Stories Color Me Happy pattern papers in small designs, and stamped and fussy cut each one out. I then glued them on the same image stamped on white cardstock. Once I had all 3 done, I used the coordinating die to cut each one out. I used another piece of the same pattern paper pad for the background of the card, then die cut a partial circle from white cardstock using the largest Stitched Circle die. This provided the perfect place to adhere my images, and a sentiment from the same set. I also added a few Trinity Bubble Blow Out embellishments, as well as a loop of Lawn Fawn white twine tied in a bow! Here is a closer look at this summery card:

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Framed Up Birthday Wishes Cards - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! So...since I had something small leftover from yesterday's cards, you know I had to turn them into their own cards, right?!? I used leftovers and pretty much the same supplies from Simon Says Stamp to create an entirely different look for today's cards! They are still sentiment heavy, but in a different way than yesterday's cards!

For these, I used the other frames leftover from cutting out the panels for yesterday's cards. You can check out all the details for these cards HERE if you want to know how I created those panels. You can only see a touch of them here, but I think they were still fun enough to feature instead of throwing away. I added an internal frame with a panel of the same colors of Lawn Fawn Schoolyard papers, by cutting a slightly smaller Stitched Rectangle and nesting it inside. I ink blended a bit of soft color on the top and bottom of white cardbases to soften that part a bit using coordinating Straw, Jade, and Shell inks. I then built sentiments with the Big Old Birthday set too fill the bottom space of the card, and layered up foam strips between each of the frame layers. Finished off with the same coordinating gems in Sunbeam, Sprout, and Mandarin! Here are more photos of these framed up cards:

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Layered Background Birthday Wishes Cards - Simon Says Stamp

Hello again! You can NEVER have enough birthday cards, so I always love when I can make several all at once, just by changing one thing so that you also have some variety. These cards use a mix of supplies from Simon Says Stamp - a stencil, background stamp, sentiment die...and they all come together for a really fun design!

These cards came together kind of unexpectedly! I started off by stenciling some backgrounds using the Leafy Greens stencil that I hadn't had a chance to put to use yet. I stenciled one panel each with Wheat, Eucalyptus, and Salmon inks, then softly ink blended around the edges of those panels with the next lightest shades of ink in Straw, Jade, and Shell. I planned on just using those as they were, but then I spotted the Scripty Birthday Background set (another one I hadn't had a chance to use), and decided it might be fun to stamp that over the top, so why not?!? I used colors from a different color family for each one, but similar tones, just a darker shade. I used Honey, Pine, and Terracotta for those. Isn't it unexpected but fun? I then cut those panels out with Stitched Rectangles dies, matted with a bit of white cardstock, and then added with foam adhesive to cardbases created with cardstock from the Lawn Fawn Schoolyard paper pack. I die cut the Birthday Wishes sentiment for each card from black and white cardstock, and added secondary sentiments from Big Old Birthday, then finished off with coordinating Dazzling Gems in Sunbeam, Sprout, and Mandarin. Here is a closer peek at all these finished cards:

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Soft Sympathy Card Duo - Simon Says Stamp

Hello! It had been a while since I added sympathy cards to my stash, and since I always prefer to make those before I need them, rather than in the moment when it is sometimes harder, I pulled out some items from Simon Says Stamp the other night and created these soft and simple cards. The muted tones seemed like the perfect choice for a sympathy card!

I started off with the lovely frames cut using Hand Tied Frames from Starlight cardstock, the perfect soft gray. Next, I stamped one of the floral images from Wild Rose on white cardstock, and heat embossed with my underused Cream Embossing powder. I used small Shading Brushes to add a hint of color to some areas of the image, using Jade for the leaves, and either Ballerina or Periwinkle for the blooms, then die cutting with the coordinating dies. Next, I added some shading to the cardbase, using Buttercream for the top portion, and the coordinating ink for the blooms in the bottom portion. I added some Black splatters, allowed that to dry, and then added the frames with liquid glue. Sentiments are from With Sympathy, and I popped those and the floral images up on foam adhesive, then finished off with some coordinating enamel dots and enamel hearts from Pinkfresh Lovely Lane and Very Merry Christmas enamel packs. Here are more photos of these finished cards:

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